pock
/pɒk
/noun
A pockmark.He was a strange-looking man, olived-skinned face marked with scars and pocks from unknown battles....
- The lesions resemble small pocks - tiny, pus-filled blisters most prominent on the face, arms and legs.
- Her head was bare again, and marked by tiny red pocks.
Derivatives
pocked
/ adjective ...- In some places the stone is pocked and scarred by the corrosive effects of black sulphates.
- Their sides were pocked and scarred.
- He thanked the medical staff who determined he had been poisoned, which caused him extreme internal pain and left his face pocked and grey.
pocky
- At Bury St Edmunds, Faith Wilson told her neighbour in 1619 to ‘pull up your muffler higher and hide your pocky face’.
- So this winter has been a constant deluge of flyers warning about weird rashes and red throats and pocky skin and the nasty stomach virus that wouldn't die.
Origin
Old English poc 'pustule', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch pok and German Pocke. Compare with pox.
Rhymes
- allodiary
- allodification
- allodium
- allodynia
- alloerotic
- alloeroticism
- alloerotism
- alloesthesia
- all of
- all of a doodah
- all-of-a-piece
- (all) of a piece
- all-of-a-pieceness
- (all) of a sudden
- all of a tremble
- allogamous
- allogamy
- allogeneic
- allogeneity
- allogeneous
- allogenic
- allogenous
- allograft
- allograph
- allographic